I'm a judge.It seemed to me that it was critical to try to takeaction to stem the criticism and help people understandthat in the constitutional framework,it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliationagainst decisions people don't like.- Sandra Day O'Connor

Young women today often have very little appreciationfor the real battles that took place to get women wherethey are today in this country.I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.- Sandra Day O'Connor

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers,vastly more than to the other chambers,I am sure.I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the UnitedStates who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.- Sandra Day O'Connor

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion,such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews.Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.- Sandra Day O'Connor

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty -one,perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injuryto passengers or damage to goods.Then, of course, we have to look to the precedentsof other member nations in resolving issues.- Sandra Day O'Connor

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance,I hope you dance.- Lee Ann Womack

Imagine all the people living life in peace.You may say I'm a dreamer,but I'm not the only one.I hope someday you'll join us,and the world will be as one.- John Lennon

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,of Peace and Hope and Pride.I Dance My Dance with Life Today,I'm Filled with Love Inside.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life aresomething to do,something to love,and something to hope for.- Joseph Addison

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hope springs eternal.- Alexander Pope

Only those who can leave behind everything theyhave ever believed in can hope to escape.- William S. Burroughs

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,nor should life rest on a single hope.- Epictetus

I find hope in the darkest of days,and focus in the brightest.I do not judge the universe.- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarksin great and honorable courseswith a sure hope and trust in itself.- Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as truewere really true, there would be little hope of advance.- Orville Wright

We do not always see what is before our face -sometimes we see what we hope to see,or fear we will see.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.- Helen Keller

It is above all by the imaginationthat we achieve perception and compassion and hope.- Ursula K. Le Guin

We must free ourselves of the hopethat the sea will ever rest.We must learn to sail in high winds.- Aristotle Onassis

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.- George Washington Carver

We should not moor a ship with one anchor,or our life with one hope.- Epictetus

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,could still be saved; the bitterest enemyand also he who was your friend could again be your friend;love that has grown cold can kindle- Soren Kierkegaard